Dehours & Fils Terriscope Rive Droite NV Brut
Dehours & Fils Terriscope Rive Droite NV Brut
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Dehours & Fils Terriscope Rive Droite NV Brut

Dehours & Fils
$70.00

Grape: Pinot Meunier 
Vintage: NV
Type: Sparkling

Dehours Champagnes are renowned for their 'Meunier style'; bold, flavourful and demonstrating a clear terroir-oriented approach. The characteristics of the Pinot Meunier grape have become inextricably linked to the identity of this iconic vineyard. From the right bank of the Marne Valley, on the opposite side to the family vineyards that are all located on the left bank. This is the reason for calling it Rive Droite , Right Bank. Made of pure Meunier from the Montigny-sous-Chatillon village, facing our village of Cerseuil. It is a blend of 90% of 2020 harvest and 10% of 2019.

 

Jérôme Dehours took over the domaine in 1999 and started a conversion to organic viticulture, which is now complete. The domaine consists of 42 parcels, all within close reach of the winery. Dehours was the first producer in Champagne to offer “vins parcellaires” emanating from their lieux dits – a now commonplace practice. Total production is typically 70 -80,000 bottles a year, all of which are held back for an above-average period before release.

The wines are not filtered or fined, all enjoy a passage through wood, and they go through malolactic fermentation naturally in the spring. The yeasts used are indigenous, but Dehours makes their own cocktail of the best. Jérôme likes to employ the tailles, so often sold off by other producers, feeling that they impart useful and attractive qualities to the finished wines. The wines are fully aged on lees, and clarified by natural decanting, without filtration or fining.